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Essential Facts About the History of Money

Money shapes every aspect of modern life, but its journey from ancient commodities to digital currency spans thousands of years. The story of money reveals how human societies solved the fundamental ...
The New York Times

Making Sense of Dollars and Cents

Learned, lively and often irreverent, David McWilliams’s “The History of Money” is rich with surprising details about currency, then and now. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an independently ...
Santa Monica Daily Press

Teen Author Chronicles 5,000 Years of Money History in New Book

Seventeen-year-old Alexander Paris-Callahan, a recent Santa Monica High School graduate now attending UC Berkeley, has released "500 Events That Shaped the History of Money," tracing financial ...
insider.si.edu

A history of money and banking in the United States : the colonial era to World War II / Murray N. Rothbard ; ed ; with an introduction by Joseph T. Salerno

Introduction / Joseph T. Salerno -- pt. 1. The history of money and banking before the twentieth century -- pt. 2. The origins of the Federal Reserve -- pt. 3. From Hoover to Roosevelt : the Federal ...

Presidential history: The vanishing penny – the evolution of US currency

The last Lincoln penny was recently struck at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia. Its removal from circulation marks just one of ...
RealClearMarkets

Book Review: "The History of Money"

Imagine money falling from the sky. Would you slip a tenner into your pocket before you told anyone? Chances are, most of us would trouser a few notes rather ...